Let’s unlock insight, stretch thinking, and drive real results.
A dispute resolution and conflict management expert as well as an international peacebuilder and administrative judge - with the precision of an executive and the soul of a truth seeker - Melissa Kinzler carves out a global niche where high-stakes conflict meets deep human insight. With a strong background in business strategy, mediation and conflict management, Melissa has built a reputation as a trusted partner who guides individuals and groups toward lasting resolution in even the most challenging conflicts. From de-escalating disputes to facilitating negotiation breakthroughs, she threads emotional intelligence, strategy, and understanding into everything she touches—creating an undercurrent of connection and stability in the midst of chaos. She listens between the lines, negotiates with nuance, and teaches insightful transformation as a method, not a moment.
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Negotiation
Training and coaching services are designed to help others achieve superior outcomes, transform conflicts into opportunities and uncover insightful turning points you can build on.
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Mediation
Specializing in multi-party stakeholder and settlement structuring techniques, Melissa helps others craft tailored solutions to address the unique needs of each party, thereby preventing prolonged litigation.
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Conflict Management
Transform conflicts into opportunities for collaboration and innovation, ensuring a harmonious and productive environment for your group, organization or community.
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Communication
Providing individuals and teams with training and implementation of advanced communication techniques, including using verbal and non-verbal body language, emotional intelligence, listening moves, strategic empathy, and collaborative assertiveness.
Meet Melissa
A practitioner with a different kind of background.
Learn more about Melissa and her approach.
“Melissa is an exceptional mediator…adept in all forms of mediation...leveraging her corporate background to untangle complex and emotionally charged disputes with finesse. Her authenticity and creativity make her a beacon of excellence in mediation. Her pragmatic approach to business paired with understanding sets her mediation style above the rest. ”
— Janice Sperow, California AAA Arbitrator
Trained, taught, & mentored by leaders in the dispute resolution field.
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David Seibel
Program on Negotiation
Harvard Law School
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Ambassador Steven Rhodes
Ambassador (Ret.)
Professor, International Disputes
Loyola Marymount University
California State University
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Stevenson Carlebach
Program on Negotiation
Harvard Law School
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Larry Susskind
Program on Negotiation
Harvard Law School
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Chuck Doran
Program on Negotiation
Harvard Law School
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Arbitrator Janice Sperrow
Distinguished Neutral
Commercial Arbitrator
Sperow ADR
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Toby Berkman
Harvard Law School
Program on Negotiation
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Betsy Fierman
Program on Negotiation
Harvard Law School
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John K Mitchell, Esq.
Trusted Mediators International
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Marvin Whistler
SCMA Board Member
Mediator, Private Practice
Los Angeles CA
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Susan Guthrie
Mosten-Guthrie Academy
Private Practice
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